I dream today of an Unseries plane... Discworld. Ankhmorpork, the Counterweight Continent, the Wastelands...
Mythic rare {Lord Vetinari}, Legendary Human Patrician, rare {Samuel Vimes, Captain of the watch}
A flip-card why not? {Sergeant Angua}, Watch-woman/werewolf.
Unseen university, {Rincewind, failed wizard}
The Librarian, creature type - Orangutan.
I would kill for this to be a real series. Any other Terry Pratchett fans here? I'd love to here ideas for cards, or existing cards to compare to. I'm going to start a deck of existing cards to represent them, my first being {Reckless Waif} = Angua.
Let's hear some Discworld love, if you guys are in here!
Dude...all I got from this post was "disco" and "world". But that's good enough for me! Follow your dream kid! :D
Discworld is a series of books by Terry Pratchett, they're the best scifi dark British humor ever IMO. Check out anyone of his books, they're not terribly long reads. I promise it's amazing.
I'll be pretty surprised if no one here is a little bit of a Discworld fan.. I thought for sure I'd have a few fellow readers!
I'm familiar with Discworld in name alone. Sorry.
Oh no apology necessary. Maybe my word here will encourage some people to read them. ;)
I've heard good things. My reading list is long enough already. 📖
I hear that. I have two new Discworld novels I need to read. A stack of of classic Russian science fiction. I just got a hardback complete set of E. A. Poe stories. And so on..
If it were a Night Angel Trilogy deck I could totally chime in lol.
Quote from: Leviathan on June 13, 2012, 07:11:42 AM
If it were a Night Angel Trilogy deck I could totally chime in lol.
Something I haven't read! I'll have to put it on my todo list.
Kyler ftw
Quote from: Johng4490 on June 13, 2012, 07:06:03 AM
I hear that. I have two new Discworld novels I need to read. A stack of of classic Russian science fiction. I just got a hardback complete set of E. A. Poe stories. And so on..
💜💜💜💜
LOVE Poe! Pit and pendulum, Tell-tale Heart, Raven!
"Thank heavens the crisis,
The danger is past
The lingering illness
Is over at last
The fever called living
Is conquered at last"
Sorry... I had a moment there... 😔
Back to Discworld
Eh, I started this thread so I declare we can talk about anything.
I rarely find myself amused by a recitation of Poe, but Vincent Price made me smirk when he voiced it at the beginning of "The Raven," the old 50s movie.
I'll have to read disc world now. But currently I am reading a book called "Blindness". In this book, people can catch blindness like a pandemic.
While we are talking about books, has anyone here read "The Silmarilion"?
Quote from: Coffee Vampire on June 13, 2012, 06:47:30 PM
While we are talking about books, has anyone here read "The Silmarilion"?
It has been years, but yes. It didn't hold attention like most of Tolkien's work.
While we are talking about Tolkien, is anyone here friggin excited for "The Hobbit"?
Quote from: Johng4490 on June 13, 2012, 06:42:15 PM
Eh, I started this thread so I declare we can talk about anything.
I rarely find myself amused by a recitation of Poe, but Vincent Price made me smirk when he voiced it at the beginning of "The Raven," the old 50s movie.
That was just me expressing my love of Poe's poetry. 😁
Quote from: Johng4490 on June 13, 2012, 06:51:05 PM
Quote from: Coffee Vampire on June 13, 2012, 06:47:30 PM
While we are talking about books, has anyone here read "The Silmarilion"?
It has been years, but yes. It didn't hold attention like most of Tolkien's work.
While we are talking about Tolkien, is anyone here friggin excited for "The Hobbit"?
Yeah, it is not an easy read. I started it when I was young and quit. Then started it again later and enjoyed it.
AND YES!!! I like the book even better than the LOTR trilogy books, and am very excited for the movie.
Quote from: Coffee Vampire on June 13, 2012, 07:20:39 PM
Quote from: Johng4490 on June 13, 2012, 06:51:05 PM
Quote from: Coffee Vampire on June 13, 2012, 06:47:30 PM
While we are talking about books, has anyone here read "The Silmarilion"?
It has been years, but yes. It didn't hold attention like most of Tolkien's work.
While we are talking about Tolkien, is anyone here friggin excited for "The Hobbit"?
Yeah, it is not an easy read. I started it when I was young and quit. Then started it again later and enjoyed it.
AND YES!!! I like the book even better than the LOTR trilogy books, and am very excited for the movie.
The Hobbit was a lot of fun to read. It's more like a D&D adventure than the other books IMO.
Quote from: Johng4490 on June 13, 2012, 07:17:00 AM
Quote from: Leviathan on June 13, 2012, 07:11:42 AM
If it were a Night Angel Trilogy deck I could totally chime in lol.
Something I haven't read! I'll have to put it on my todo list.
These books are amazing! Turned me into zombie for a couple weeks lol
Perhaps I should give it a second try. I have the respect for Tolkien to give it a go.
I'm a bit of a Lego fanatic, and was super excited when I heard they were doing the LotR and Hobbit, but man have they gotten weird. Sets don't always make sense. But they do have some great LotR sets.
I'll probably re-read The Hobbit before the movie releases. It so good. :)
The Hobbit is the first book I ever read and it is still one of my favs. My wife actually read that out loud to our kids each night before they could read......it was pretty cool.
Dude my dad did the same thing...wow lol
I'm inspired now to do the same should I have children. Who needs the cheap tripe they put out for kids these days?
Quote from: Johng4490 on June 14, 2012, 04:41:27 PM
I'm inspired now to do the same should I have children. Who needs the cheap tripe they put out for kids these days?
My 2 y/o nephew hasn't cracked the spine of a children's book but he can pull a Stephen King, Dean Koontz, or John Grisham off the shelf by himself. (Grandpa's books)
As it should be.
Quote from: Leviathan on June 13, 2012, 07:11:42 AM
If it were a Night Angel Trilogy deck I could totally chime in lol.
Winning! Those books are so dope!
With so many good reviews I'll have to check them out. :)
Quote from: Johng4490 on June 15, 2012, 12:50:14 AM
With so many good reviews I'll have to check them out. :)
Brent Weeks is well deserving of the praise.
Sweet. :) well returning to the original topic, I'm going to make the start of my dreamed up Discworld set tonight, and I'll try to post a few favorites on Saturday or Sunday. Even if you guys aren't familiar with the characters yet, it should still be fun. :)
Quote from: Johng4490 on June 15, 2012, 04:56:56 PM
Sweet. :) well returning to the original topic, I'm going to make the start of my dreamed up Discworld set tonight, and I'll try to post a few favorites on Saturday or Sunday. Even if you guys aren't familiar with the characters yet, it should still be fun. :)
I'm totally familiar with the magic of Discworld! Mort is my fav book. I find Death just hilarious! Glad to see another fan. Have you heard anything about more graphic novels? I have The Color of Magic, it's fantastic to see the world illustrated, but don't know of any other ones